​​ TO: The 61 ​local health jurisdictions (LHJs), including the Directors; Local Health Officers; Deputy Health Officers; and Maternal, Child and Adolescent Health (MCAH) and California Home Visiting Program (CHVP) Directors

CC: California Department of Public Health (CDPH) and state MCAH leadership, and representatives from the County Health Executives Association of California (CHEAC) and the California Conference of Local Health Officers (CCLHO)​​

Please share t​​his email as needed. If someone is missing that should be included, please let us know as soon as possible by emailing the CHVP mailbox at CA-MCAH-HomeVisiting@cdph.ca.gov. Please do not reply all to this message. 

​Good afternoon,

This notice is to announce the release of the California Home Visiting Program (CHVP) State General Fund (SGF) Innovation 3.0 Request for Supplemental Information (RSI). The California Department of Public Health (CDPH)/California Home Visiting Program (CHVP) is offering a small number of awards to local health jurisdictions (LHJs) to implement innovative home visiting or home visiting related programs or projects with a focus on meeting a locally identified challenge in providing relevant, responsive, well-integrated home visiting services to pregnant and parenting families in their communities.

Applications for the Innovation 3.0 RSI will be accepted for proposed projects in the following categories:

Category 1. Evidence-based home visiting (EBHV) models not otherwise funded by CDPH/CHVP

Category 2. LHJ developed/defined or evidence-informed home visiting models or case management programs

Category 3. Policy, systems, and environmental change (PSE) strategies

Category 4. Ancillary services and supports for home visiting programs administered through local MCAH departments

​Attached are the CHVP SGF INNV 3.0 RSI and CHVP SGF INNV 3.0 RSI Application Template. Please review each document carefully for further information related to categories of funding, eligibility criteria, and submission instructions.

CDPH/CHVP will host a voluntary technical assistance webinar related to the RSI on Monday, September 15, 2025 at 2:00 p.m. The invitation to this information session will be sent by midday tomorrow.

Questions related to the RSI will be accepted until 5:00 p.m. on Wednesday September 24, 2025. Send all questions to CHVPINNV@cdph.ca.gov with the subject line "CHVP Innovation RSI 3.0 Quest​​ion”. Questions will be answered via an email to all local MCAH Directors and Coordinators by Wednesday October 1, 2025.​​​​

Key Dates ​​

​Thank you, 

California Home Visiting Program Innovation Team
Maternal, Child and Adolescent Health
CA Department of Public Health​

Attachments: 

• ​​Req​uest for S​uppl​​ementa​l Information​
• Request for Supplemental Information Submission​ Form (PDF)​​